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Re: udev and /usr



On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 11:11:31PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 02 septembre 2009 à 22:30 +0200, Florian Lohoff a écrit : 
> > /usr was on seperate filesystems for decades and some 3733t broken by design
> > Desktop utility turns around old Unix paradigms? I dont get it ...
> 
> Since when is udev a desktop utility?

Its not udevs idea to sort out usb/pci ids - Its whatevers consumer like
hal/dbus and co decided to.

udev itself is an essential tool necessary to bring up the machine so 
it has to go into root and not depend on any other filesystem to be there.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                         flo@rfc822.org
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